Timothy B. Smith teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including The Mississippi Secession Convention: Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861–1865; Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front; and James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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